See also: لقت and لقب

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ل ف ت (l f t)
6 terms

Verb

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لَفَتَ (lafata) I (non-past يَلْفِتُ (yalfitu), verbal noun لَفْت (laft))

  1. to bend, to crook
  2. to draw, to attract, to turn away, to divert [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to what’]
    • 2018 January 12, “الجابري: تسجيل التحالفات لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة بيّن حجم الخلافات الواضحة في التحالف الشيعي”, in The Baghdad Post[1]:
      لفت السياسي نديم الجابري اليوم الجمعة الى ان الخلافات واضحة في التحالف الشيعي ابرزها عملية تسجيل التحالفات لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة ، معتبرا انه لا توجد رؤية مشتركة لمكونات التحالف الوطني بشأن القضايا الوطنية والانشقاقات في الكتل السياسية ناتجة عن فشلها الذريع.
      The politician nadīm al-jābirī has on Friday drawn [attention] to the patent disagreements in the Shia alliance, most notably the alliances for the campaign for the election of the coming year, judging that there is no common vision about the constituents of the national alliance over the national affairs and the splits in the political blocs arising from their abject failure.
  3. to turn, to twist, to wring
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Etymology 2

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From the root ل ف ت (l-f-t) in the sense of twisting or wringing out of the ground, "to pull up or extract".
Ultimately, from Proto-Semitic *lapt-.

Compare: Hebrew לֶפֶת (lefet, turnip), Classical Syriac ܠܰܦܬܳܐ (laftā, turnip), Akkadian 𒇻𒂠𒊬 (LU.UB2.SAR /⁠laptu, liptu⁠/, turnip).

Noun

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لِفْت (liftm

  1. turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa)
  2. similar plants
    1. kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
    2. rape, rutabaga (Brassica napus)
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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لفت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 115
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “لفت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2663
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لفت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1159–1160

Egyptian Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

Noun

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لفت (liftm

  1. turnip

Hijazi Arabic

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Root
ل ف ت
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Etymology 1

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From Arabic لَفَتَ (lafata).

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Verb

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لفت (lafat) I (non-past يِلْفَت (yilfit))

  1. to draw someone's attention, to be attractive
Conjugation
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    Conjugation of لفت (lafat)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لفتت (lafatt) لفتت (lafatt) لفت (lafat) لفتنا (lafatna) لفتتوا (lafattu) لفتوا (lafatu)
f لفتتي (lafatti) لفتت (lafatat)
non-past m ألفت (ʔalfit) تلفت (tilfit) يلفت (yilfit) نلفت (nilfit) تلفتوا (tilfitu) يلفتوا (yilfitu)
f تلفتي (tilfiti) تلفت (tilfit)
imperative m الفت (alfit) الفتوا (alfitu)
f الفتي (alfiti)

Etymology 2

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From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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لفت (liftm

  1. turnip

Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

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Noun

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لفت (laftm (collective, singulative لفتة f (lafta), paucal لفتات (laftāt))

  1. turnip

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi लिफ़्ट (lifṭ), from British English lift .

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Readings
Dari reading? lift

Noun

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Dari لفت
Iranian Persian آسانسور
Tajik лифт

لفت (lift) (plural لفت‌ها (lift-hâ))

  1. (Dari) lift (UK), elevator (US)

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ل ف ت
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From Arabic لَفَتَ (lafata).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /la.fat/, [ˈla.fat]
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

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لفت (lafat) I (present بلفت (bilfit))

  1. to draw someone's attention, to be attractive
Conjugation
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    Conjugation of لفت (lafat)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لفتت (lafatt) لفتت (lafatt) لفت (lafat) لفتنا (lafatna) لفتتو (lafattu) لفتو (lafatu)
f لفتتي (lafatti) لفتت (laftat)
present m بلفت (balfit) بتلفت (btilfit) بلفت (bilfit) منلفت (mnilfit) بتلفتو (btilfitu) بلفتو (bilfitu)
f بتلفتي (btilfiti) بتلفت (btilfit)
subjunctive m ألفت (ʔalfit) تلفت (tilfit) يلفت (yilfit) نلفت (nilfit) تلفتو (tilfitu) يلفتو (yilfitu)
f تلفتي (tilfiti) تلفت (tilfit)
imperative m الفت (ilfit) الفتو (ilfitu)
f الفتي (ilfiti)

Etymology 2

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From British English lift.

Noun

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لفت (liftm (plural لفتات (liftāt))

  1. lift, elevator
    Synonym: أصنصير (ʔaṣanṣēr)

Etymology 3

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From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

Noun

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لفت (lífetm

  1. turnip